…To Be Wild

Bohn Aluminum and Brass Corporation was a manufacturing company based in Detroit, Michigan and formed in 1924 from the merger of the General Aluminium and Brass Company and the C.B. Bohn Foundry Company.

[Ads from 1947 found here and there.]

Cinco De Mayo Hot Links

Crackin’ Up, GA-20 (2023) One of the best roots rock blues bands to come out of Boston (or anywhere) in recent years, GA-20 consists of Matt Stubbs / guitar, Pat Faherty / guitar, lead vocals & gofro, Tim Carman, drums. The song is a cover of a 1959  Bo Diddley recording.

Old trucks.

Bouncing China.

The longest road.

Leveling dominos.

Daddy’s little placebo.

Norty Blues Episode 62.

24 Femmes Per Second.

Best ways to use Orbeez.

Put the Orbeez in a balloon.

If it’s true, is it still propaganda?

Shadow and Light: Sergiu Ciochină

Bouncing lessons [via Bunkerville].

Live Music Is Good Part 2 [h/t Gord S.]

Improved Ferris Wheel Goat. Related posts here.

Morse Code Receiver Chart is clever [via Memo Of The Air].

The Penguin goes “pew pew [via The View From Lady Lake].

¡Feliz Cinco De Mayo!

[Top image: Face Plant courtesy Pam M. via FB.]


From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago

Saturday Matinee – Taj Mahal w/ Clive Barnes & Eric Bibb, Cory Wong w/ Victor Wooten, and Anna Scionti

Following a performance in France in 2010, Taj Mahal and Clive Barnes joined Eric Bibb to play his song Needed Time.

Cory Wong with Victor Wooten and band lay down some funky groovidity.

Anna Scionti won the Melbourne Blues Appreciation Society’s (MBAS) Blues Performer of the Year 2023 (Solo/Duo Category) and represented the MBAS at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis Tennessee in January 2024.

Outta time, outta steam, see you tomorrow.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 852 – Pulseface, Dad vs. Kid Gamer Styles & Rubbermaids Are Go

[1st .gif made from images found here; 2nd & 3rd from Xwitter vids found here and here.]

Everybody wants to be one someday.

Is this your day?

[Found here].

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

Fruit of the Cow

[A fine example of bachelor food, grilled using a coathanger over the one burner that still works, found here.]

The Best of BOLLARDS III

Click any image to enlarge. Related posts: The Best of BOLLARDS I & II.
All posts tagged “bollards” here.
Most images were lifted from World Bollard Association™.

Belemnoidal Hot Links

Ain’t No Big Thing, The Original Spontanes (2011) In 1966, The Spontanes (aka Joey Ray & The Spontanes, The Original Spontanes) recorded a cover of The RadientsAin’t No Big Thing (1965), then reprised it at a the Carolina R&B Reunion, Gastonia NC in 2011.

Stealth.

Kid hacks.

Nice people.

Screw bikes.

24 Godesses.

Nudie branch.

Eternal Ascent.

Trucks & Lorries.

How to steal stuff.

Bees can do math!

When dots connect.

Norty Blues Episode 61.

Stopping self-driving cars.

Concept cars [via Mme. Jujujive].

Damascus goat [via Bunkerville].

You Can’t Park There, Sir. [Sound up]

The Positive of the Negative [via The View From Lady Lake].

Digital porcelain sculptures of celebrities kissing themselves.

The Management Secrets of Genghis Khan [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: Space Suits Playing Cards found here via This Isn’t Happiness.]


From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

Saturday Matinee – The Courettes, The Holophonics & Dan Patlansky

Dubbed The World’s Greatest Two Person Rock ‘N’ Roll Ensemble, Flavia & Martin Couri, aka The Courettes, make retro new again. Hop hop.

The Holophonics are a ska punk reggae band with members from New York City, Dallas/Ft. Worth & Southern California. At least they have a Facebook page.

This trio consists of Dan Patlansky / guitar & vocals, Tom Schwan / bass and Ben Matthews / drums. Patlansky is a blues guitarist from South Africa, was voted the No. 4 Best Guitarist in the world. He’s the only artist with two worldwide No. 1 and two No. 2 Best Blues Rock album awards as voted by Blues Rock Review.

Been another week full of Time Flies and I still haven’t figured out how to slow them down. I plan to be up at the crack of noon tomorrow for porch time and we can discuss our options then. See you when you get here.